Today is a big day in our household. Today is day 78 of us having the twins home from the hospital. Weird number, right? Well, they spent exactly 78 days IN the hospital, and it feels pretty monumental to have had them home the exact same amount of time they were in...

One of my very best friends is a pediatric nurse. Until very recently, I didn’t really know what that meant. I mean, I knew that it meant she was a nurse who took care of kids, but I didn’t REALLY get it until our babies were born. I have a new...

Dear NICU dad, What you’re going through is difficult. Your baby or babies are likely hanging by what seems like a thread at the moment, and your partner, the one who gave birth to that fragile being may seem also to be hanging by a thread emotionally. Your role...

There were moments when we were in the NICU with our twins that I really thought they would never let us bring them home. I thought we’d be one of those families that spends years in the hospital with babies who never knew anything different. The challenges our...

If you’ll recall from my first post, major life changing event number 1 was having twins. Our family went from two, plus two dogs, to four humans and two dogs in what felt like overnight. It was actually 218 overnights, but who’s counting. Oh, wait,...

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